MARQGLEN GROUP LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC203026 · ltd · incorporated 2000-01-17

Investment thesis

Established operating company — standard diligence applies, no dominant angle.

Why interesting: Live, filing, normal profile.

Why risky: No standout signals in either direction.

Why now

Window steady · low confidence

Stable recent picture — watch for any upcoming trigger event.

What changed my view

Last 30 days

No material changes in the last 30 days.

Last 90 days

No snapshot from 90 days ago — start tracking from today.

Last 180 days

No snapshot from 180 days ago — start tracking from today.

🔒Estimated value

—

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Turnover

—

year to Sept 2024

Net worth

£46.2k

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Activities of other holding companies n.e.c.

Sector: Financial & insurance

ALSO REGISTERED FOR

70229Management consultancy activities other than financial management

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 83-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 83). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -77% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile

address, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

6 officers (4 active, 6 linked, 3 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

12 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

80 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £46,194

Net assets shrinking

Down £15,957 YoY

Cash draining

Cash down 77% YoY

Cash YoY

-77%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£2k

↓ 77% YoY

Net Worth

£46k

↓ 26% YoY

Current Assets

£5k

↓ 71% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2024-09-27	2023-09-27
Total assets	£46.2k	£62.2k
Current assets	£4.9k	£17.1k
Cash	£2.4k	£10.3k
Debtors	£2.5k	£6.8k
Net assets	£46.2k	£62.2k

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand

2025-09-23
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2024-09-26
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2024-02-29
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-09-20
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accounts · AA
2023-09-13
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officers · CH01
2023-09-13
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officers · CH01
2023-08-18
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address · AD01
2022-08-17
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-22
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accounts · AA
2021-03-05
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capital · SH01
2020-07-24
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accounts · AA
2019-06-21
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accounts · AA
2019-05-22
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2018-06-22
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2017-06-22
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2000-04-17
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BALLINGALL, Anne Jean appointed
secretary
2000-04-17
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BALLINGALL, Anne Jean appointed
director
2000-04-17
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GRAINGER, June Ferguson appointed
director
2000-04-17
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GRAINGER, Laurence Douglas appointed
director
2000-01-20
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BRIAN REID LTD. resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2000-01-20
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STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. resigned
corporate-nominee-director
2000-01-17
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Company incorporated
As MARQGLEN GROUP LIMITED
2000-01-17
➕
BRIAN REID LTD. appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2000-01-17
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STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. appointed
corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

83/100

Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS

+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 26 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 83 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100

Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 83 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 26 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 26 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

clean

No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Laurence Douglas Grainger Individual · British · DOB 02/1943 · age 83	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	06/04/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2000-01-17

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC64209 — Activities of other holding companies n.e.c.

Registered office

Bank Chambers

31 The Square

Cumnock

KA18 1AT

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-27

Last made up to: 2024-09-27

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-03-05

Last: 2026-02-19

Officers (4 active · 2 resigned)

BALLINGALL, Anne Jean→

secretary · appointed 2000-04-17

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

BALLINGALL, Anne Jean→

director · ~65y · appointed 2000-04-17

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Active

GRAINGER, June Ferguson→

director · ~82y · appointed 2000-04-17

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

GRAINGER, Laurence Douglas→

director · ~83y · appointed 2000-04-17

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

BRIAN REID LTD.→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2000-01-17 · resigned 2000-01-20

Resigned

STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD.→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2000-01-17 · resigned 2000-01-20

Resigned

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Recent filings (80 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2026-02-19

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2025-09-23

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-03-18

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2024-09-26

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-03-06

change-to-a-person-with-significant-control

persons-with-significant-control · PSC04

2024-02-29

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2023-09-20

change-person-director-company-with-change-date

officers · CH01

2023-09-13

change-person-director-company-with-change-date

officers · CH01

2023-09-13

change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address

address · AD01

2023-08-18

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-03-17

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2022-08-17

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-03-15

accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged

accounts · AA

2021-09-22

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2021-03-05